How to migrate from ports/emulators/linux_base-c6 to linux_base-c7?

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 13:30:21 -0700 David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org> wrote:
> Per ports/UPDATING entry 20141215, I have been using
> emulators/linux_base-c6 on my laptop for some time.
> 
> I recently noticed that ports/emulators/linux_base-c7 now exists (as of
> r421391: 2016-09-05 13:10:30 -0700 (Mon, 05 Sep 2016)).
> 
> On the other hand, while I count 76 "linux{,base}-c6*" ports (as
> of ports/head @422979), I only see a single "linux{,_base}-c7*" port --
> ports/emulators/linux_base-c7 itself.
> 
> Scanning through ports/UPDATING, the most recent entry on
> emulators/linux* is the above-cited 20141215, and the previous entry
> (20141209) is the latest entry to document a process for migrating from
> one Linux emulation infrastructure to another.  I believe a few of the
> particular it cites may well be rather out-of-date.
> 
> So I'm wondering:
> * At what point might it be ... reasonable ... to consider migrating
>   from linux_base-c6 to linux_base-c7?
> 
> * Are there any particular steps to take to accomplish such a migration?

We are still working on the other c7 ports: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7886